News Ofsted watch: Week ends with flurry of new reports It has been a mixed week for FE providers amid a flurry of new reports published on Friday by… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Highbury College principal to retire next summer A principal at the centre of an expenses scandal announced her retirement today after 18 years at the helm…. Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive First Ofsted grade 4 challenged by provider The first provider to receive grade four under Ofsted’s new inspection regime has appealed. Independent learning provider Mercia Partnership… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Ofsted reveal new inspection report – all 13 of them Ofsted has this morning published the first provider reports under the new Education Inspection Framework (EIF), all 13 of… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Exclusive Were college’s students told cladding on halls of residence ‘failed’ a fire safety test? The cladding at a college’s halls of residence for students under the age of 18, the type used on… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News AELP call for retraining scheme rethink to avoid another “expensive skills white elephant” The National Retraining Scheme should be relaunched as a ‘traineeship for adults,’ according to the Association of Employment and… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Revealed: More than one in ten colleges lose cash under controversial English and maths condition-of-funding rules Twenty three of the 171 (13 per cent) colleges have been stripped of £1,468,934 in their funding allocation due… Nick Linford 6y Nick Linford 6y News Revealed: The FE winners honoured in the 2019 Pearson Teaching Awards A college lecturer and a sixth form college are among 13 winners honoured in the 2019 Pearson Teaching Awards… Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y Pippa Allen-Kinross 6y News Exclusive More UTCs to recruit from year 7 as trust softens stance on entry age Two more university technical colleges have ditched their 14 to 19-year-old intakes to recruit from 11, with predictions that… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y News Ofsted watch: A ‘reasonable week’ for new apprenticeship providers It has been a mostly positive week for new apprenticeship providers according to Ofsted’s monitoring reports. Together Training Ltd… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Thousands celebrate second ever Colleges Week Thousands of students, staff and people who love colleges across the country signed pledge cards and handed them to… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y News Exclusive Providers risk handing back £38m in next 20 years if they quit T-levels Colleges will have to keep on running T-levels for at least 20 years if they want to avoid handing… Fraser Whieldon 6y Fraser Whieldon 6y Newer 1 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 830 Older Must read Skills reform Long read New law to bar ‘unsuitable’ FE leaders among skills white paper reforms The government’s post-16 strategy has finally been unveiled Billy Camden 4d Billy Camden and Shane Chowen 4d Qualifications Exclusive Revealed: V Levels incoming as axe looms for BTECs New qualifications set to launch as ‘third route’ between A-levels and T Levels Shane Chowen 3w Shane Chowen 3w Politics, Skills reform Exclusive DWP will take over apprenticeships, minister confirms Shifting adult skills and apprenticeships policy will give “bigger emphasis on skills”, Jacqui Smith claims Anviksha Patel 1mo Anviksha Patel 1mo Next 3 stories Colleges, Long read Long read Colleges on the frontline of a divided nation As social media algorithms fuel intolerance and binary thinking, college staff increasingly find themselves dealing with the fallout. Jessica… Jessica Hill 3mo Jessica Hill 3mo Colleges, Long read Alun Francis, chair of the Social Mobility Commission Deprived areas need vision – not victimhood – to level up, and Social Mobility Commission chair Alun Francis is… Jessica Hill 4mo Jessica Hill 4mo Long read, Prison education Long read The prison that’s offering hope for a new life upon release ‘We’re saving people’s lives as well as turning them around’ Jessica Hill 5mo Jessica Hill 5mo
